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More like 103rd just ran a lot to 1000s on the route given right now (10:37 AM), all the buses on there are 103rd artics.

103rd might as well try to get the Artics that they've lost since last few months back or at least borrow some of them from Kedzie for the Taste of Chicago. It will be an disaster for 50/50 or more 1000s on those of busiest express routes.

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More like 103rd just ran a lot to 1000s on the route given right now (10:37 AM), all the buses on there are 103rd artics.

Yeah, I see that today but now it's the #14 with an artic shortage (same almost 75% percent 1000's). Main point: 103rd needs artics back To at least handle the rush loads. Even though they say demand has changed, people are still packed like sardines. mellow.gif

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Yeah, I see that today but now it's the #14 with an artic shortage (same almost 75% percent 1000's). Main point: 103rd needs artics back To at least handle the rush loads. Even though they say demand has changed, people are still packed like sardines. mellow.gif

Well if they actually do get the 14 changed from Jeffery Express to Jeffery BRT by fall of next year, the implication is that there won't be as many 40 foot buses used on the 14 if any unless what 40 foot buses are used are done so outside of the rush hour periods to coincide with the BRT lanes (and thus the actual BRT service) being in operation during rush hour in the peak direction. I say this might be how it plays out because of CTA's PDF about the 14 BRT specifying the modification of 53 artic hybrids with traffic signal priority equipment so that they can be used to operate the route after conversion, the 53 apparently being the number of artics at 103rd St Garage.

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Well if they actually do get the 14 changed from Jeffery Express to Jeffery BRT by fall of next year, the implication is that there won't be as many 40 foot buses used on the 14 if any unless what 40 foot buses are used are done so outside of the rush hour periods to coincide with the BRT lanes (and thus the actual BRT service) being in operation during rush hour in the peak direction. I say this might be how it plays out because of CTA's PDF about the 14 BRT specifying the modification of 53 artic hybrids with traffic signal priority equipment so that they can be used to operate the route after conversion, the 53 apparently being the number of artics at 103rd St Garage.

Looks like that would be a gain then because at this time there are 46 (4059-4105).

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Looks like that would be a gain then because at this time there are 46 (4059-4105).

Which is why I said 'apparently' the number assigned. I took into account that the presentation was put together before the summer time swap out of a few more artics out of 103rd that now has some in a ruckus that a few more 1000s are seen on the 6 and 14 on weekdays and so of course would not have taken into account the specific number of artics at 103rd isn't currently 53 buses. I had to question why the slides would state a specific number as far as modifying artics at 103rd to use on the route and have as spares when bus assignments at the garages fluctuate as different season picks come about, not to mention as noted in the BRT thread all 53 or whatever number of artics will be assigned at 103rd when the service is proposed to start obviously won't be on just the 14 at one time.

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Which is why I said 'apparently' the number assigned. I took into account that the presentation was put together before the summer time swap out of a few more artics out of 103rd that now has some in a ruckus that a few more 1000s are seen on the 6 and 14 on weekdays and so of course would not have taken into account the specific number of artics at 103rd isn't currently 53 buses. I had to question why the slides would state a specific number as far as modifying artics at 103rd to use on the route and have as spares when bus assignments at the garages fluctuate as different season picks come about, not to mention as noted in the BRT thread all 53 or whatever number of artics will be assigned at 103rd when the service is proposed to start obviously won't be on just be on the 14 at one time.

Perhaps some of those buses will be on the 15. Even so, I can't imagine running the 6 without any artics at all unless there would be a significant jump in the amount of 1000s assigned to it. Perhaps retrofitting all the artics just makes them available for use as opposed to being assigned to one particular route.

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Perhaps some of those buses will be on the 15. Even so, I can't imagine running the 6 without any artics at all unless there would be a significant jump in the amount of 1000s assigned to it. Perhaps retrofitting all the artics just makes them available for use as opposed to being assigned to one particular route.

That's the understanding I take from it that modifying whatever number of artics at 103rd makes them available for use on the 14 and not that they'll all be restricted just to the 14 as had appartently been the case with only certain Novas being on the 49 when there was a traffic signal priority test going on with that route and those buses.

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...must have been a little horse trading over the holiday weekend. I saw 1609 working either a 77th or 103rd route Monday, and 6404 pulling out from Chicago Ave. garage this morning.

1609 has been at 103rd for a couple of years now. 1605-1613 odds have been at 103rd (1606-1612 evens are at K).

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North Park usually trades its artic when they get to much mileage since thery're used so much, and 103rds aren't.

It would make sense that this would be a probable reason for it since North Park does use its artics to operate several local routes besides all its expresses save one, the 144 which uses maybe one or two at most. One example of it is with the weekday interline between the 147 and the 22 during the end of the evening rush hours where the 40 footers on the 22 just about all pull in after making it to Howard and the extra 147 artics from the PM rush change to 22's at Howard to replace those 40 footers and handle the evening and owl period service until 40 footers come back in service at the later portions of the next morning's rush period, some which were 148 buses that ended their trips downtown on the last morning trips of that route.

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